New construction home, and you can somewhat feel the house shake if you slam the front door???

Question

New construction home, and you can somewhat feel the house shake if you slam the front door??? Do not know if it is just the feeling due to a pressure tight home, but it does feel like the whole 2nd floor moves. It is a Split-foyer type home.

Answer 1

It's a little late to be looking at the framing for problems. I understand your concern though. You are correct-on a really tight house the air pressure of just shuting the door can create a cushion of air that has no where to go- so it forces pressure against the windows,walls,ceilings,etc.

A way to test this is to open one window on the second floor about 2-3", tape a trash bag over the gap - have one person stand at this window while you shut the door on the first floor. If the plastic trash bag does not move much then the house is not soo tight.

The only thing I can think of that would allow a house to shake would be not having a strong enough center floor beam to support the 1st floor floor joist. Usually on a 2 story house there are several walls on the first floor about in the center of the house and they support the 2nd floor, These walls usually run parallel with the long outside walls. If there is not either a center block wall under the floor joist in the crawl space or a strong floor beam and steel post under the 1st floor joist in the basement then this could allow your floors to shake somewhat.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Open a window and then shut the door it should give you a better idea about just what is happening.  Do call the inspectors and the builders.

Answer 3

THIS  cant be  good  ,,  report it  to  home  inspections  and  they can  pull up  when it  was  inspected  for  sale ,  and  by  who.

Answer 4

Sounds to me that it was built on buried trash , that is they dug a hole and pushed trash from trees and rubbish in the hole, I personally have seen this happen.

LLC   Home  Builder

Answer 5

doors are not suppose to be slamed. the heavy doors today can cause  a lot of damage if they are repeatedly slammed. Keep hold of the door and push it closed.  Retrain everyone in the house how to close a door correcly.